Participated · Equity · Apr 2021

Wyng offers a privacy-first personalization platform built from the ground up on a zero-party data (ZPD) API and privacy-by-design principles. Its product portfolio includes Wyng Microexperiences to source ZPD via product finders, quizzes, surveys and promotions; Wyng Profiles to unify ZPD into customer profiles accessible via a secure embedded portal; and Wyng Moments, which uses ZPD and machine learning to insert personalized content, products and offers at key engagement moments. The platform integrates ZPD with existing CRM, CDP and ESP systems and can ingest content from any source including product catalogs and user-generated social content. Wyng positions ZPD as consent-based personal context data (needs, preferences, interests) that customers proactively share to improve their experience. The company reports a profitable customer base of more than 250 brands and enterprises, including Cargill, Church & Dwight, Moët Hennessy and Univision. To speed onboarding of existing customers and attract new names to the platform, Wyng raised $2M from existing investors in early April 2021. Offerpop provides a SaaS platform that enables marketers to run campaigns, manage user-generated content, capture consumer data and drive conversions across digital channels. Its customers include global brands such as L’Oreal, Comedy Central and Lilly Pulitzer, and it is a strategic partner to roughly 2,000 enterprise and mid-market brands. The platform interacts with millions of consumers daily and manages tens of millions of pieces of user-generated content. Over the past 12 months the company has nearly tripled revenue, opened an EMEA headquarters in London and more than doubled headcount. Offerpop is available on the ExactTarget Marketing Cloud HubExchange and is a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer and a Twitter Certified Product. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate product innovation and expand operations in the United States and Europe and to establish new offices globally. Offerpop is a New York-based social marketing software company that provides a platform for Facebook and Twitter enabling brands to run engagement campaigns, optimize social content, and capture actionable data to convert fans into customers. The company is a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer and serves over 40,000 customers, including Amazon, Pepsi, MTV, American Express, Etsy, Time Inc., and American Eagle Outfitters. Co-founded by Wendell Lansford (CEO), Prakash Mishra (CTO) and Mark Cooper (CMO), Offerpop targets marketers seeking to turn social audiences into customers. The company raised $5.7M in a Series B and intends to use the proceeds to further develop its platform. Offerpop has raised $10M in total to date. In conjunction with the financing, Robert Belau of Bulger Capital Partners joined the board.

Participated · Series E · Oct 2014

GoodData builds cloud-native Data-as-a-Service analytics infrastructure, delivering real-time, scalable analytics via its GoodData.CN platform. The company positions GoodData.CN as an alternative to legacy batch-oriented BI, enabling embedded analytics, self-service, machine learning, and IoT use cases. GoodData reported 9x recurring revenue growth from its self-service channel in 2020 and says its platform has helped over 140,000 businesses. Management plans to expand global sales and engineering teams and continue investing in enterprise-grade, cloud-native analytics solutions. In 2021 GoodData announced an investment and strategic partnership with Visa and was named a key partner in Visa’s Fintech Partner Connect program. The company is backed by investors including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Intel Capital, and TOTVS. GoodData offers an all‑in‑one data analytics platform focused on interactive self‑service analytics, user interfaces, and data visualizations that let customers build insight services and new business models. The company serves over 2,000,000 users in more than 145 countries and its platform is trusted by more than 50% of the Fortune 500. GoodData has introduced freemium and growth‑pricing tiers to broaden access and help more companies become data‑led. It has also supported large data projects such as the COVID‑19 Commerce Insight initiative, which analyzed about one billion engagements and 400 million transactions. Following the announced investment, GoodData plans to expand customer support for complex data governance, compliance, cybersecurity, and privacy. The company positions itself as a partner to business networks and enterprises seeking to add analytics and insight services to existing offerings. GoodData provides an embedded real-time analytics platform that delivers real-time visualization, recommendations, and predictive analytics at the point of work for front-line workers, customers, partners, and regulators. The platform is backed by global customer support and a network of data centers across the US, Canada, and the European Union, and operates under a unified framework of security and privacy compliance. GoodData’s platform provides insights to over 100,000 companies and 1.4 million users globally. The company announced a $24M financing composed of equity and venture debt. Zendesk led the equity investment, CIBC Innovation Banking provided the venture debt, and existing investors participated. GoodData is a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an end-to-end cloud analytics platform. Led by CEO Roman Stanek, the company enables business analysts, business managers and IT professionals to turn data into actionable insights. Its platform provides self-service visualization and on-demand advanced tools for building custom metrics, with no hardware or software to integrate or manage. GoodData completed a $25.7M equity financing in February 2014. The round was led by Intel Capital with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Tenaya Capital, TOTVS, Next World Capital, Windcrest and Pharus Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Intel Capital Director Igor Taber will join GoodData’s board. GoodData offers a cloud-based data analytics and business intelligence service with pre-configured templates to analyze company data. The platform includes integration support from GoodData and lets customers track, segment and target their information. It competes with offerings from IBM, SAP and Oracle as well as analytics providers such as Birst and Bime Analytics. Founded in the Czech Republic and headquartered in San Francisco, the company positions itself as a leader in the emerging cloud BI market. GoodData has now raised $75.5 million to date and says an IPO could be possible in the next few years if it continues to execute. The company cited TOTVS' regional clout in Latin America as a factor in accepting the new investment.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2014

Festicket operates an online marketplace for festival tickets and travel packages, letting users buy tickets and book hotels and transfers, discover festivals via Spotify, and search by artist, festival type, or country. Founded in 2012 in the UK, the platform reports more than 2.5 million active users across 100+ countries and partnerships with about 1,200 festivals. Festicket maintains offices in London (headquarters), San Francisco, Amsterdam, Berlin and Porto. The company positions itself as one of the world’s largest festival-ticketing platforms and sells tickets for major Spanish festivals such as Mad Cool, Primavera Sound and FIB. The recent fundraising is intended to support international expansion and to improve the user experience. No financial metrics beyond the fundraising and user/partner counts are disclosed in the article. Festicket operates an online marketplace for festival tickets and travel packages, covering more than 1,200 music festivals globally. The platform works with a network of over 4,000 travel and accommodation suppliers and has served more than 2 million travellers since launching in 2012. Headquartered in London, Festicket also has offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Porto, and San Francisco. The company plans to use its latest capital to fuel expansion into North America and Asia. Financially, Festicket raised $10.5 million in the current round and has raised a total of $24.2 million to date. Board changes tied to the round include the addition of Eyal Malinger of Beringea and Treatwell’s COO Ben Leaver. Festicket operates an online marketplace that enables music fans to discover and book festival tickets and bundled travel packages (tickets, accommodation, travel and add‑ons). The platform lists 500+ music festivals across 40 countries and connects to a network of 1,000 suppliers for accommodation and travel. It reports a community of 900k+ fans, 2M unique monthly visitors and has served 250,000+ travelers from 120 countries. Led by CEO Zack Sabban and CPO Jonathan Younes, Festicket aims to expand its operational and marketing efforts to grow its live music fan community, supplier base and global brand. The company plans to deploy native‑speaking teams and local offices to each market. Festicket has raised $6.3M in the reported round and $9.68M in total to date. Festicket operates a discovery and booking platform that lets users browse a curated directory of music festivals and purchase package deals that include tickets, transport and accommodation. The product combines festival event curation, social features and a festival-related travel booking engine. The company aims to simplify the process of attending festivals and open the market to a wider audience by consolidating multiple providers into a single purchase. Festicket plans to use new capital to accelerate international expansion, grow the team and further develop product features such as inspirational content and recommendation tools. Founders Zacharie Sabban (CEO) and Jonathan Younes (CTO) launched the company in early 2012. In terms of traction, Festicket works with more than 200 music festivals globally—including Tomorrowland, Ultra Europe and Leeds & Reading—and claims over 300,000 festival-goer members. Festicket operates a consumer-facing site that lets users browse a curated directory of music festivals and purchase single-package bookings that include tickets, transport and accommodation. The company also offers a B2B white-label product that powers festival sites, deepening partnerships and enabling sales directly on official festival websites. It partners with more than 40 top music festivals across Europe and generates revenue by taking a 20% commission on each element of the packages it sells. Festicket reports an average basket price of around €290 and says it has 27,000 active members, 73% of whom are from the UK, France and Germany. The startup plans to use the new capital to further develop the platform, extend its product range, bolster sales and marketing (including key hires) and accelerate European expansion. Founded in early 2012, the company is building both consumer and B2B distribution channels to widen access to the festival market.

Participated · Series A · May 2012

AxialMarket operates a controlled, confidential online marketplace that gives qualified private capital market participants—strategic buyers, financial sponsors, intermediaries and business owners—access to originate opportunities, engage qualified parties and transact. The platform provides tools, education and services to help entrepreneurs efficiently identify, collaborate with and transact alongside strategic buyers and professional investors. Launched in beta in 2009, the platform has enabled over 8,800 private companies, representing more than $150B in total revenues, to manage and execute financial transactions. Supported transaction types include M&A sales of mature, profitable bootstrapped companies, mezzanine and acquisition-based financing, mid-sized company recapitalizations and growth-stage equity capital raises. The company was founded as Cathedral Partners in 2007 and changed its name to AxialMarket in March 2010. The business is based in New York City.